I don't know why A would be a bad idea on a Mac. Its ideal for a windows system a 1TB raid 0 made of SSD works great just ask Noel. I would think it would be great for unix as well Apple seems to think so to For their MacPro storage looks like raid 0 to me
Storage, User accessible
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